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Monday, 5th April 2010

NEH Grant Dollars Heading to Ann Arbor to Digitize Historic Medical Content and Create Digital Encyclopedia

Some news from the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Libraries:

The University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine a two-year $314,688 grant [from the National Endowment for the Humanities] to create an original, open access digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in the United States. The University of Michigan Library, through its Scholarly Publishing Office, is contributing digital conversion, hosting, and archiving services to the project.

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“The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia” is original in three significant ways. It will:

+ Be the first digital collection to document the social, cultural, public health, and human dimensions of the most devastating infectious health crisis to occur in the world during the post-germ theory era;

+ Be the first extensive digital collection to highlight the responses of over 50 differing American communities to the 1918-1919 pandemic, with attention to multiple social forces, organizations, communities and to the human experiences of death and disease;

+ Provide access to an extensive set of interpretative documents, such as city essays, timelines, information boxes, and sidebars that will help guide the reader and serve as templates for self-guided research projects.

The project is scheduled to launch in 2012. The URL will be: http://www.influenzaarchive.org/ An informational page is already online.

Access the Complete Announcement

Source: Scholarly Publishing Office at U. of Michigan Libraries

See Also: Review Other Recently Awarded NEH Grants


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